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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real intentionality around the policies and View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
And Aisha unfortunately had the same condition that Tanya did. And then we had to battle like crazy to save her. We had to fly her to the UK. I had only $2,000 in my pocket. Enough to just buy an air ticket, one-way air ticket. I didn't... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
numerous undertakings to roll out no- or low-emission products and processes in multiple sectors. Hence, the major auto producers, globally, have announced commitments to phase out production of new internal combustion engines by 2035 to... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
(In medieval Europe, it was consumed daily because the presence of alcohol made it a safer alternative to water.) And the recipe has remained largely unchanged. To make either low- or no-alcohol beer, one begins with a batch of full-test brew. An evaporative View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
a Chaotic World by Michael Wheeler (Simon & Schuster) Wheeler, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, retired, shows how master negotiators thrive in the face of chaos and uncertainty. They understand negotiation as a View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
Before you make that next big deal — to buy a car, hire new staff, or acquire a company — you'd better brush up on your ballroom skills. In business today, negotiating is more like an intricate dance than a cold transaction, according to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Picture This
importance of capturing these moments: As CEO of Shutterfly, she leads a 23-year-old company that got its start making photo prints of life’s memorable moments. But it also pioneered the process of turning digital images into physical... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
the frames you have seen. They present this as a service but it’s also very valuable data, because they can link offline and online, and they know that you were in the store on a particular day and what frames you saw, and they can follow up with an email saying, “Do... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
experiment with seaweed and asked kelp farmers if he could buy some. “They said, ‘Sure, but what are you going to do with it?’ ” Perkins recalls. “Then I realized there was no infrastructure to store it or View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Networked Computers behind IT Payoff
information and the people who use it," he observes. McAfee's research shows that employees generally embrace networked systems, perhaps, he says, because their databases and business processes "interconnect people within the company who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
Name: Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99), President & CEO Company: GetConnected, Inc. (founded 1999) Size: $20M annual revenue, 100 employees Location: Boston, MA Web: www.getconnected.com Elevator pitch: GetConnected processes voice, data, and... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
and raising a family, and becoming a caregiver to an aged parent. “Through that process I began to look at what was available in the marketplace for the aged who had cognitive disorders like dementia, but also the aged in general, and I... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
Arctic Ice Project is ready to scale. “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator,” Payne observes. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of expanding its board. Fundraising is key... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
people and process as much as technology. So there's more to the Y2K problem than technology? Definitely. You can tell a lot about a company by how it's reacting to the Y2K problem. An organization whose people failed to see how it would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
leave them in bins that are collected for free by Neutrall’s partner. “In the process of building an American carbon-neutral supply chain, our partners essentially allowed us to build and scale a private, local recycling network,” notes... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
on the back of the package. Eventually, “I really started focusing on the actual ingredients I was putting in my body,” she recalls. When she did, Flynn discovered that a diet of nutritionally rich, minimally processed foods gave her more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced manufacturing team,” she grimaces. “The class was a complete... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill